Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sat on another modern green couch; she took my hand and gazed intently into my palm. Mrs. Star looked about fifty-five. Her combed-backed black hair, large brown eyes and short breadth indicated gypsy relatives. She began...
...Competition is hell." This largest single fact in the grim little world of a shoeshine boy came from a youngster of eleven, a veteran of four years on the sidewalk. George sat glumly in front of Briggs and Briggs on an ancient, beaten kit box. "All the shoe stores grab everybody. Some Saturdays I ain't had anybody...
That was the idea-but it was hardly more than an idea. It came to substance during conferences around the octagonal table in the White House Cabinet Room. There Ike sat in his regular chair, back to the French doors leading to the Rose Garden. Across from him, in the chair usually reserved for Vice President Nixon, sat Harold Macmillan, a maroon cardigan sweater buttoned under his grey sack suit, the stump of a dead cigar in his hand. Their relationship, long friendly, grew closer during the week (although Ike called him "Harold," Macmillan stuck to "Mr. President...
...grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer in the next village. "It was a human being," the messenger told the court, "and it was a woman. It walked like a dog and it sat like a dog. Its head was like a human, but it was covered with a lion skin. I was not afraid of it because Muhandi, the sorcerer, told me that it was a soft lion and would not harm...
...seats in the Salle Gaveau were empty, but the atmosphere in the elegant Paris concert hall was tense. Behind the scenes, 38 nervous young men and women from a score of countries polished their bulky cellos, flexed their hands, and spat on calloused fingers. In the balcony sat 14 distinguished cellists, including France's Pierre Fournier, Britain's Sir John Barbirolli, Russia's Mstislav Rostropovich. It was the Concours International Pablo Casals 1957, organized to honor the great cellist, and it proved to be a surprisingly thrilling East-West match...